Friends of Bailey Park

Yesterday was a busy day. We welcomed a group from Abergavenny U3A in the afternoon followed by evening session for our regular volunteers. We were planting perennials, weeding and generally tidying the borders in the sunburst gardens.
It is a bit of an in-between time of year as the spring bulbs are over and the summer flowers are just coming out.

EVENING GARDENING SESSION
We're pleased to say that we are running our evening session today as the weather isn't looking too bad. If you'd like to come and join us please come to the sunken garden 5.30pm onwards and we finish at 7.30pm.
These evening sessions were set up for people who'd like to volunteer with us but are unable to join us for our usual morning sessions. 🌳💐🌹🥀🪻🌻

We have reluctantly decided to cancel the Tuesday evening gardening session this evening (26th May) because it is just too hot.
We should be back 5:30 Tuesday 2nd June.

The Friends of Bailey Park Volunteers would like to extend a warm welcome to all those who've rolled into the park ready for two days of the Steam Rally. The team hopes you enjoy strolling round the gardens, enjoying the flowers and the peaceful surroundings. ⚘️🪻🌺🌻🌳🌷🌸

Did you know, every single bee makes a huge difference for our planet! Plant flowers, avoid pesticides, provide safe habitats, and protect pollinators so that nature can thrive.
Together, we can create a greener, healthier world—full of blooming gardens, fresh food, and buzzing life—for future generations.

Today is World Bee Day, a day to recognise our important little friends without whom the world would collapse! As you know, we love our bees in Bailey Park Gardens so for a little bit of fun, which bee are you? Sorry if you're January......😁

TOMORROW EVENING - 5:30pm- 7:30pm - COME AND SEE US! Find out about what we do, how to volunteer and have a tour of the gardens.

NEW EVENT! On Tuesday evening (19th) we are trialling our first ever evening gardening session, from 5.30pm to 7.30pm. This is to attract any people who'd like to volunteer with us but can't make the daytime sessions. If it works out well then these evening sessions will be permanent until the end of September.
In conjunction, we are also holding an Open Evening so that you can come along and find out more about what we do and see whether volunteering with us is something you'd like to do.
Please come along and meet us.

We'd like to thank the lovely team of volunteers from the DWP who came over to help us this afternoon. We split them into two cohorts and one group sorted out the flowerbeds in the gardens area and the other group absolutely blitzed the Pavilion beds, so that we can plant some colourful perennials / bulbs up there to brighten it up.
Thanks so much for all your hard work and it has helped us out enormously. ❤️
Thanks to Deb, Ian and Judith from the FoBP Volunteers for helping me with the supervising.
Grateful thanks also to Kelly from GAVO for co-ordinating it all.
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